BOUND WITH WIRE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12790, 15 June 1912, Page 5

BOUND WITH WIRE.

■' DESPERATE JOBBERS 'IN ADE-, ■ -"•'■ ". LAIDEA yy "'■■':' V ' A'D&AIiUE; June 1. The premises of l-yes and Ci'owle, inotor-cav; pVoprietors, m Pine street, were broken into at an early hour Iri the morning,-, and a sjim. .of money stblen. The. watchman m charge Avas Reginald : ' Siiridilands/ and he states tl;at- he retired at abbut 11.20 o'clock, but was awakened at a quarter to 1, -and heard somebody Amoving, about downßta.irs. There was a lot of row, and evidently the iritntders did not ku ft> v > t-hat osom^body slept on the premises. He went 'on:Ar-'T ..crept downstairs, but immediately Set foot qn the- ground, floor a tall, man 'presented a revolver. 'Don't •shout or I'll,blow but your brains': he ordered. I was ,powerlesß. While this man kept me covered with the revolver the other went- into, the-.workroom and returned with some wire. I \yas bound hand and foot, and after tearing the shirt- nearly off ,niy back and, giving me a coup^ of spiteful.,-kicks ,thp. big-, ger of the two. men tried to force me under a mbtpr-cair-to maket-me perfectly safe. T could riot offer resistance, and it was oply because -J;-was hob ,big.that he didn't put-, me' there. .: When the men went I. attempted to get. free, but the /wire wa-. strong. At dlihost every movement it.. ;cut, into the .'flesh, .^yi agony, •I' managed to crawl-to. the Ph*|e street end of the building, but, thought tl would neverAattract atteritiOhi Afor 'B was imable to make any.more row than, a low gmin. About half-past 1, ho^yever,. the manager of ,the Freeriiasons' Hotel, next door,, liberated me. _ The wire had to be, filed through." The safe was op.eried,.«rid; £15 m, gold Avas taken. • A number of- cheques and promissory-notes,. jyhjch had apparently been inspected, Wfire found on a desk. In the Freemasons' Hotel Miss May Blackwell was awakened at 1 ; o'clock ■by groans! She wbke the manager,'and the police were, called. . On going to Eves" and Orowle's. tihey found- Sandir lands' face blackerifed with Tsmut fromthe floor, and his wrists bleeding fi-om wounds which the wire had made.